New Year's Day 2019

Festive celebration of the first day of a New Year is preceded by New Year's
eve party. The New Year is often celebrated at private parties, in restaurants
or at balls, where according to the tradition of the north, participants take
off their masks and welcome the New Year. It is also popular to welcome a new
year in the streets and main squares of the cities, e.g. at Times Square in New
York. At midnight and with the advent of the New Year, we can see colorful
fireworks show and a great luminous sphere, called the Big Apple, which is
lowered from the mast. The tradition of lowering the great sphere from the
mast was born on 31 December 1907. The 1st January is usually spent among
friends and family at festive dinner table often watching a football game.